Simon Walker is an English

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, adventurer and businessman. He is one of only a handful of people who have raced the wrong way around the world more than once. Walker raced on board Rhone Poulenc as the mate in the British Steel Challenge in 1992–3, and again as Skipper of

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Wave Warrior in the next edition, the BT

Global Challenge The Global Challenge (not to be confused with Global Challenge Award) was around a world yacht race run by Challenge Business, the company started by Sir Chay Blyth in 1989. It was held every four years and took a fleet of one-design steel yachts, ...

1996–7. He finished 2nd overall and was the youngest skipper in the fleet. He won the first Teacher's Whisky Round Britain Challenge race in 1995. Outside of racing he has also led sailing expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. He then went on to become the managing director of the race organiser Challenge Business and was instrumental in the next two events, the BT

2000/1 and the

2004/5. During this time he employed the

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(then Catherine Middleton) for a summer job prior to her going to University. As managing director, he also oversaw several editions of the

Atlantic Rally for Cruisers The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (''ARC'') is an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser yachts held since 1986. It also includes a sailing competition for racers. The ARC starts at the end of November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and end ...

(ARC), the world's largest trans-ocean yachting event. He also served as chief executive of Challenge Business inc based in San Francisco while the business attempted to establish a US based round the world race, the New World Challenge. He has been an entrepreneur, author and speaker, specialising in leadership and in particular

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. He was a co-founder of the online leadership coaching system, my360plus and the consultancy Talentsmoothie and the co-author of Generation Y: what they want from work. Since 2010 he has been a non-executive director o
The Adventurists
organisers of the Kraken Cup

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race in East Africa. He is now the managing director of the

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manufacturer
Parajet
and has flown a paramotor from Victoria Falls to Johannesburg in preparation for the Icarus Trophy in 2018.

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External links

Simon Walker Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Simon Living people English male sailors (sport) Single-handed circumnavigating sailors English sailors 1968 births